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Passing Rick Hendrick on the annual BNC 125 is proving as challenging as keeping up with Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Cordon or other famous Hendrick Motorsports drivers on the NASCAR tracks. [...]

Many big N.C.-based companies soared over the soared over the past year. But 33 of the 75 showed declines. It's conventional investing wisdom that few individuals can top the long-term [...]

Perhaps it's a coincidence that our key people involved in the rapid growth of Raleighs Captrust financial services company hail from small North Carolina towns. But these guys don't think [...]

In 1986, twins Jack and Frank Blythe sold their Charlotte family's 65-year-old Blythe Brothers construction business to Britain's Alfred McAlpine, which built Wembley Stadium and other famous projects across the [...]

The automotive giant has ambitious defense contracting plans. A Concord factory is helping revive a proud legacy. General Motors is making a push to become a significant player in the [...]

This is a story about dramatic growth at High Point University. If you're tired of hearing about a university with a ubiquitous marketing effort, maybe just read the following quote [...]

Duke University Hospital grabbed the top spot in Business North Carolina's annual ranking of the state's best hospitals, and it had company with two other Duke University Health System hospitals. [...]

Celebrating diverse leaders in the state is a tradition at Business North Carolina, culminating in this year's features on people from various racial and ethnic backgrounds from across the state. [...]

Buying half of a strip shopping center near the Fayetteville State University campus that the school didn't already own may be a relatively small real estate transaction. But the $2.2 [...]

Building Better Businesses For 30 Years Since 1993, the principals of Ridgemont Equity Partners have invested over $6 billion in 165+ companies. Ridgemont is the largest private equity firm in [...]

Truist's merger has investors shaking. Leaders say it's all right, it's OK. B&T got very big when it decided to merge with SunTrust to create the nation's sixth-largest bank in [...]

It's been half a century since London native Dennis Gillings took a job as a biostatistics professor at UNC Chapel Hill, and more than 40 since he launched a five-employee [...]

Moses Cone Hospital received top honors in Business North Carolina's annual ranking of the state's best hospitals. The largest hospital owned by Greenboro-based Cone Health tied for the No. 1 [...]

The start of the school year always makes me consider the commitment to providing opportunities to society's key assets, our kids and youth. Partisan efforts try to dumb down the [...]

Shifting strategy at N.C. State Employees' Credit Union raises debate over balancing members' needs. Whose interests deserve priority? Chris Ayer joined the North Carolina State Employees' Credit Union in Raleigh [...]

Selecting BNC's Small Businesses of the Year winners is an exciting annual task that culminated this year with these companies: * Core Technology Molding, a Greensboro plastic-injection molding company. * [...]

'Build it and they will come' is more than a slogan for seven low-wealth counties in North Carolina. The state budget included $10 million to jumpstart the process of adding [...]

Since 1982, Raleigh's Wake Stone Corp. has pulled 55 million tons of rock from its quarry adjacent to Umstead State Park and near Raleigh Durham International Airport in western Wake [...]

Business North Carolina recognizes thriving business owners and professionals under the age of 40 who work in N.C. cities and towns that have fewer than 100,000 residents. This year, we [...]

Patrick Melton and Jordan Phillips didn't have a lot to lose when they started their South Street Partners real estate enterprise in the recession of 2009. Developers were folding and [...]

Business North Carolina's list of the state's largest private companies includes 50 enterprises with revenue topping $500 million in 2021 and combined employment of more than 140,000 staffers. While most [...]

Cone Health leaders chose a different path than their North Carolina peers when the Greensboro based hospital system decided to partner with a larger entity in June. The dominant hospital [...]

The best magazines have a soul that undergirds the work, making them about more than beautiful design, photography and writing. For much of Business North Carolinas history, journalist Edward Martin [...]

Fast growing companies often rely on senior executives with long histories of working together. Then there's Novant Health, which is expanding quickly even as it shuffles executive leadership. Six of [...]

What's ahead for North Carolina's four Atlantic Coast Conference members is a favorite chatter topic for sports-obsessed alumni and leadership. Conventional wisdom is that the ACC is a likely loser [...]

'You would not believe the size of that thing,' is a comment I've heard from several friends who have driven past Toyota's massive electric battery manufacturing complex nearing completion in [...]

I've refereed youth soccer games at many different venues across the state. When I pass some of those fields, even many years later, I inevitably recall some regrettable, specific decision. [...]

It was a bloody year for investors in North Carolina public companies. Shares of companies based in the state generally got slammed in the 12 months through June 30, perhaps [...]

The North Carolina Economic Development Association honors top achievers at its annual convention, including last month's gathering in Wilmington. The award winners worked on the state's most high-profile successes in [...]

Raleigh investor Bobby Edgerton has tracked stocks for decades, showing an infectious desire to sniff out good opportunities. His picks for 2023 had the best performance among our investing pros [...]

Oral surgeons are sometimes called the fighter pilots of the dental industry because they are called in to solve the most difficult challenges of facial pain. It's also not the [...]

Duke University Hospital of Durham and Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital of Greensboro tied for top honors in this year's annual ranking of North Carolina's best hospitals. Even in legendary [...]

The article focuses on the 40-year journey of Capital Investment Group, founded by Richard Bryant and Bobby Edgerton, which has grown to manage nearly 8 billion U.S. dollar in client assets. Topics include their unconventional partnership, their brokerage's expansion, and the personal stories behind Bryant and Edgerton's success in the financial industry, including challenges and key moments that shaped the company's growth.

Decades of talk about the importance of empowering minority-owned businesses has led to limited success. The gap between Black and Caucasian household incomes widened in recent years, partly because of [...]

Sixteen years ago, veteran Triangle marketing executive David Chapman was coaching a youth baseball team when another dad mentioned his work as an executive with a franchising company. The chance [...]

That North Carolina has a pro-business climate envied by other states is a viewpoint widely held across the political divide, from Phil Berger to Roy Cooper. A story on page [...]

Ranking hospitals is a worthy pursuit that has its limitations. For many years, Business North Carolina has published a list of the state's top hospitals, with the main purpose of [...]

Pandemic restrictions and work-from-home policies have limited traffic in North Carolina's center cities, but construction of large buildings has continued at a crisp pace. That was particularly true for downtown [...]

Writing in depth business stories for a monthly publication was a novel concept when then-Dow Jones President Ray Shaw and his sons Kirk and Whitney started this magazine in 1981. [...]

When Jim Triandiflou joined Relias Learning as CEO in 2012, the Cary-based online training company had about 110 employees. When he left in late 2019, it had 775 staffers and [...]

Welcome to Business North Carolina's annual list of the state's largest privately held companies. For more than 30 years, the magazine has recognized businesses that play pivotal, often understated roles [...]

Mike Mayer has tracked a circuitous route on his path to becoming the CEO of North Carolina's biggest community bank. It's been 39 years since he left Clemson University with [...]

Happy New Year! And it should be a happy year, with many reasons for an optimistic outlook in North Carolina as the calendar turns to 2024. This months edition includes [...]

Skeptics who thought it was crazy to build a world-class whitewater rafting center near the Catawba River in west Charlotte looked like savants in 2009. The 270-acre project had opened [...]

Having grown Team Automotive Group from one dealership in Salisbury in 2017 to six across the state and one in South Carolina, owner Kristin Dillard says the differentiator isn't standard [...]

A new, sprawling multiuse space in the Queen City's trendy South End neighborhood. A 22-story tower in downtown Raleigh that boasts the title of 'most green' high-rise in the U.S. [...]

Not messing up a good thing is a challenge facing every fourth-generation family business leader. Brian George has been dancing on that tightrope since 2014 amid dramatic changes and increasing [...]

Since 1993, the principals of Ridgemont Equity Partners have invested over $5 billion in 154 companies. Ridgemont is the largest private equity firm in North Carolina and among the largest [...]